repellency
noun
repellency is a noun meaning “The ability to repel; the characteristic of repelling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-P-E-L-L-E-N-C-Y, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of repellency is repellencies.
What does repellency mean?
noun
- 1
The ability to repel; the characteristic of repelling.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of repellency
- repellencies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is repellency?
Repellency appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Repellency in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | répulsion, water repellency, déperlance |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does repellency come from?
From repellent + -cy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).